Against Their Will... The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR is a historical research book by Pavel Polyan, published by the Memorial society

Memorial (society)

Memorial is an international historical and civil rights society that operates in a number of post-Soviet states. It focuses on recording and publicising the Soviet Union's totalitarian past, but also monitors human rights in post-Soviet states....

. It is the first comprehensive study of all massive-scale forced migration

Forced migration

Forced migration refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region...

s within the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

. The book is based on published materials and archival data made public. It contains a large number of summary tables.

The table of contents gives a fair summary of the book.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Forced migrations: prehistory and classification
  • Forced migrations before Hitler and Stalin
  • Forced migrations and World War II
  • Classification of forced migrations
• Part I. Intra-Union Forced Migrations
  • Forced migrations before World War II (1919-1939)
    • First Soviet deportations and resettlements of 1919-1929
    • Dekulakization and kulak
      Kulak
      Kulaks were a category of relatively affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and early Soviet Union...
      
       exile of 1930-1931
    • Kulak exile and consequences of the famine of 1932-1934
    • Border cleansing and other forced migrations of 1934-1939
  • Forced migrations during and after World War II (1939-1953)
    • Selective deportations from annexed territories of Poland, Baltic States, and Romania of 1939-1941
    • Total preventive deportations of Soviet Germans, Finns and Greeks of 1941-1942
    • Total "retribution" deportations of peoples of North Caucasus and Crimea of 1943-1944
    • Forced preventive deportations from Transcaucasus and other deportations by the end of the war, 1944-1945
    • Compensatory forced migrations of 1941-1946
    • Ethnic and other deportations of 1949-195
  • Geography of the settlement of deported peoples and the process of their rehabilitation
    Rehabilitation (Soviet)
    Rehabilitation in the context of the former Soviet Union, and the Post-Soviet states, was the restoration of a person who was criminally prosecuted without due basis, to the state of acquittal...
    
     in the USSR
• Part II. International forced migrations
  • Internment and deportation of civil Germans to USSR
  • Labor and repatriation of civil Germans from European countries
• Conclusion: Geodemographic scale and consequences of forced migrations in the USSR

External links

The book online, on the site of Memorial

Memorial (society)

Memorial is an international historical and civil rights society that operates in a number of post-Soviet states. It focuses on recording and publicising the Soviet Union's totalitarian past, but also monitors human rights in post-Soviet states....

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